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Biodiversity enhancement tool poised for launch has “sizable” waiting list
INTERVIEW: Premium cost of building low-emission gas power plants offset by CO2 sales, says developer
Victoria’s blackout wasn’t the fault of renewables, but a sign of a system working as it should | Temperature Check
Even as the weather emergency was still unfolding, some commentators and politicians couldn’t resist the urge to blame renewable energy
More than half a million electricity customers were without power in Victoria on Tuesday after storms swept across the state, downing power lines and transmission towers.
But as workers and system managers scrambled to get power back online, some commentators and Coalition MPs were unable to resist the urge to somehow blame renewable energy.
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What has Louisiana’s governor done his first month in office? Boost fossil fuels
Republican Jeff Landry, who has labeled climate change ‘a hoax’, has elevated fossil fuel executives to key environmental posts
In his first four weeks in office, Louisiana’s Republican governor, Jeff Landry, has filled the ranks of state environmental posts with executives tied to the oil, gas and coal industries.
Landry, who has labeled climate change “a hoax”, has also taken aim at the state’s climate taskforce for possible elimination as part of a sweeping reorganization of Louisiana’s environmental bureaucracy. The goal, according to Landry’s executive order, is to “create a better prospective business climate”.
Continue reading...Corporate clean power purchase deals reached a new high in 2023 -report
Wood-burning stoves cancel out fall in particulate pollution from UK roads, data shows
PM2.5 from heating homes using solid fuel such as wood increased by 19% from 2021 to 2022, data shows
A rise in harmful emissions from wood-burning stoves has cancelled out decreases in particulate pollution from road and energy sources in the UK, government data reveals.
Emissions of PM2.5 from domestic combustion – heating homes using solid fuel such as wood – increased by 19% between 2021 and 2022, counteracting efforts made to travel and produce commercial energy in less polluting ways.
Continue reading...INTERVIEW: Guarantee company aims to break “psychological barrier” to green investments in poor countries
SK Market: South Korea sells 62% of KAUs offered in February auction
Indonesia not on track to hit renewable targets -report
Trillion-tonne iceberg A23a spins on the spot
Gold Standard consults on waste management voluntary carbon methodology
Swiss carbon removals startup inks offtake deal with Microsoft
Indian developer lays foundation for biomass fuel plant to help reduce GHG emissions
INTERVIEW: Garnaut urges Labor not to bow to “inappropriate political interference” on Safeguard Mechanism
Japanese firm offers carbon credits at the pump
New nature reserve given £2m in lottery funding
Birdwatch: On the trail of the shy albatross in Australia
On an oceanic quest in the southern hemisphere, our writer encounters the only albatross species endemic to Australia
As one seabird enthusiast once proclaimed: “Real birds eat fish.” That was certainly true of the species I was hoping to encounter on my first oceanic quest in the southern hemisphere.
A dozen of us boarded the first Sydney Pelagics trip of the year, chugging out of the famous harbour early one January morning. We soon left the silver gulls and crested terns behind, before coming across the first of a quintet of shearwaters: wedge-tailed, short-tailed, flesh-footed, Hutton’s and a single streaked, a scarce visitor from Japan.
Continue reading...Saving Kenya’s black rhinos – in pictures
The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) has successfully translocated 21 eastern black rhinos to a region where they have been extinct for 50 years. Here’s how they caught, transported and released these critically endangered 1,400kg creatures to their new home
Continue reading...Are you ready for the collapse of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation? No, you are not | First Dog on the Moon
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